Sri Lanka is voting on September 21 to elect a new president. India is closely observing the polls in the strategically ...

Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong ...

Tamils are Sri Lanka's largest minority group & usually vote as one block, but this time their vote is fractured. Plus, the 3 ...

This is Sri Lanka's first election after its economy collapsed in 2022 and holds importance for India amid growing influence ...

STORY: Tamils in Sri Lanka have little hope that Saturday's (September 21) presidential election will improve their lot. This ...

New Delhi is said to be backing Sajith Premadasa of the SJB, a party that is not only more pro-India but also committed to ...

Struggling with the aftermath of a brutal civil war and a crippling economy, Sri Lanka's Tamils hold little hope that this ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

Sri Lanka's act of tonsuring Tamil Nadu fishermen's heads insults self-respect, with Indian government being a mute spectator.

The fight for the president’s post in Sri Lanka is largely a three-way contest between Ranil Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara ...

Chennai: With just a fortnight to go for the high-stakes Presidential polls in Sri Lanka, the country’s largest ethnic minority of Tamils are still divided on whom to support in the September 21 ...

Around that time, Indian Tamil fishermen, who share the same ethnic background as their counterparts in Sri Lanka, began crossing the maritime border regularly to fish and smuggle goods.